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So the woman from Thecua came into David’s presence and there bowed to the ground to do him reverence; Lord king, she said, give me redress! (2 Samuel 14, 4)
Go home, said the king; I will see that justice is done thee. (2 Samuel 14, 8)
And the guilt, said the woman of Thecua, let that rest with me and with my own kindred; the king and his heirs shall be quit of it. (2 Samuel 14, 9)
If anyone crosses thy will, the king said, bring him before me, and I will not let him do thee any more hurt. (2 Samuel 14, 10)
Ah, said she, if the king would only take an oath in the name of the Lord his God that the kinsfolk shall not be allowed to carry on the feud, that my son’s life shall indeed be spared! Not a hair shall fall from his head, the king answered. (2 Samuel 14, 11)
And now the woman asked leave to speak one word besides, and the king granted it. (2 Samuel 14, 12)
Then she said, Why does the king’s grace treat the people of God so differently? Why does he persist in doing them wrong, by refusing to restore the man he has exiled? (2 Samuel 14, 13)
I came to make my suit before my lord the king, with his subjects standing by, thinking to myself, Come, I will plead with the king, and perhaps he will grant his handmaid’s request; (2 Samuel 14, 15)
and the king’s grace has listened to me, and given me redress against those who would have blotted out my name and my son’s name from the record of the Lord’s people. (2 Samuel 14, 16)
And now let this plea of thy handmaid’s move thee, my lord king, to speak a generous word.✻ Though indeed my lord the king is wise as an angel of God; thou art not moved from thy purpose by fair word or foul; the Lord thy God is with thee. (2 Samuel 14, 17)
Then the king said to her, I have a question to ask thee; answer it openly. My Lord king, she said, thou hast only to speak. (2 Samuel 14, 18)
Tell me then, said the king, was not Joab concerned in all this? As thou art a living man, she answered, that guess the king’s grace has made has not missed the truth by a hair’s breadth. It was thy servant Joab who sent me on my errand, and told me all I was to say; (2 Samuel 14, 19)
